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Category Archives: Energy Probe News
Lawrence Solomon: Carbon bounties (not taxes) could save us from the next Little Ice Age
With scientists increasingly predicting a long period of global cooling, we may need incentives to put additional carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Continue reading
Ontario’s electricity system will slip further into farce with fake price-regulation hearings
By continually politicizing electricity, the current Ontario government has lost its way. Continue reading
Electricity pricing, fake hearings and public ownership
All political parties that have been in power in Ontario have pursued electricity policies that are essentially political rather than economic. Some other provincial governments, notably Manitoba and British Columbia, seem to be imitating Ontario’s mismanagement of dangerously costly megaprojects and now in BC, Ontario’s politicizing of prices to consumers. This article focuses on the Ontario experience. Continue reading
Posted in Energy Probe News, Power Generation in Ontario, Reforming Ontario's Local Electrical Distribution Sector, Reforming Ontario's Local Electrical Distribution Sector, Utility Reform
Tagged electricity policies, Ontario, Ontario Energy Board (OEB), public participation, regulatory process
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Lawrence Solomon: Why the ‘e’ in e-car actually stands for evil
Electric vehicles are for city folk. For most rural residents, their role is to give, give, give. Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Energy, Energy Probe News
Tagged electric cars, Lawrence Solomon
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Lawrence Solomon: Paris is dead. The global warming deniers have won
Since his pullout in June, Trump has repeatedly reaffirmed the wisdom of pulling out of the “bad deal” for the U.S. that was Paris. Continue reading
How megaprojects bankrupt public power utilities and leave regulators in the dark: report
Government-owned power utilities across Canada are pushing ahead with multi-billion dollar megaprojects, while undermining the regulators put in place to protect consumers from such reckless behaviour, according to a new analysis from the Consumer Policy Institute. Continue reading
Posted in Energy Probe News, Hydro Quebec & Labrador, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Nuclear Economics, Nuclear Power, Power Generation in Ontario, Reforming Ontario's Electrical Generation Sector, Reforming Ontario's Local Electrical Distribution Sector, Reforming Ontario's Local Electrical Distribution Sector, Utility Reform
Tagged BC Hydro, Brady Yauch, consumer policy institute, Darlington Refurbishment Project, Energy Probe, Green Energy Act, hydro rates, keeyask dam, manitoba hydro, megaproject
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Lawrence Solomon: How Tesla’s Elon Musk became the master of fake business
Musk’s genius is primarily in the subsidy-seeking realm. By 2015, U.S. governments alone had given his companies US$5 billion through direct grants, tax breaks, cut-rate loans, tax credits and rebates. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Energy Probe News, Transportation
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How megaprojects bankrupt utilities
Brady Yauch, executive director of Consumer Policy Institute, describes the looming threat to public institutions – and to our pocketbooks. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: Why big business CEOs lean left on the Paris climate deal — and on most everything else
A little history would help explain why big business spoke almost as one in favour of sweeping regulation by the governments of the world. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Energy Probe News
Tagged big business, Donald Trump, Paris Agreement
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Lawrence Solomon: The Paris accord always was a sham
The accord allowed politicians to pay lip service meanwhile raising taxes in the name of the environment. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Energy Probe News, Fossil Fuels
Tagged Donald Trump, Paris climate agreement
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